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Drugs and alcohol testing are usually required under the following circumstances:

Pre-employment screening – You may wish to conduct alcohol and drug screening as part of your pre-employment screening process to ensure your new employee produces a non-negative result before allowing them to begin work

Random and unannounced testing – Random and unannounced testing of workers to ensure safety is maintained. Usually a percentage of the relevant workforce is randomly assigned to testing on an annual basis and this is undertaken without notice

Point of Care testing – Provides an instant result to drugs and alcohol screening. Initial samples can be used for lab analysis to provide further confirmation of results if required

‘For Cause’ testing – undertaken when there is high suspicion that an employee at work is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. A test can be undertaken within two hours of receipt of the request. Alcohol breathalyser tests and urine analysis are used for this purpose